In the few instances Ride to Hell begins to approach something of even tangential relevance, poorly written, self-referential humor kills the mood. Tragedy is greeted with no more subtly than a prolonged, agonizing "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and sexuality is given the same level of reverence as a pornographic film. Even if Ride to Hell could pass as a broken and buggy parody of the patently offensive, none of the characters seem to be in on the joke. By the tale's end, provided that you haven't attempted an auto-lobotomy, you'll have been drenched in the game's pathetic, out-of-touch approach to sex, violence, and masculinity. Every attempt at maturity devolves into shoddy melodrama. Shortly afterwards, Jake's younger brother is killed by a biker gang, at which point Ride to Hell becomes an excruciatingly cliched tale of revenge. The protagonist of this hellish torture software is Jake Conway, an emotionally scarred Vietnam veteran looking to make a nice, calm life for himself following his return stateside. Now Playing: Ride to Hell: Retribution - Video Review It's hard to imagine fans of such brainless action, but even if you consider yourself a fan of 'dumb action' you need to steer clear of this.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
It's straight on to the shooting, perhaps in an attempt to please an imagined target audience. He would have fallen to the ground, had it been programmed into the game.Īt the beginning where not given any background whatsoever. The hero dies in a bloody attack and falls down into a great graphical glitch on the ground.
Shortly thereafter he gets on a mounted machine gun and starts to shoot other bikers. Perhaps even lower.ĭuring the first minutes after turning on the game I'm treated to a biker sitting on his Harley Davidson (or rather what looks like a Harley, but without the costly license). If we had been blessed with a percentage scale with which to score games, the grade would have wound up around the 1% mark.
Simply put it's such an awful mess that no-one should even come close enough to poke it with a stick. That's the first clue about the aspirations of this biker adventure.
The box reads Ride to Hell: Retribution - 1% Edition.
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